indoctrination

[ in-dok-truh-ney-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of indoctrinating, or teaching or inculcating a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point of view:

   religious indoctrination.

Other Words From

• rein·doctri·nation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of indoctrination¹

indoctrin(ate) + -ation

Example Sentences

A self-proclaimed Christian entrepreneur announced in a press release that he had launched an internet filtering service designed to protect children from indoctrination into what he says is a “dangerous LGBTQ cult.”

From Washington Blade

This drum beating about indoctrination of students is absurd.

From Washington Post

Yet its actions and its indoctrination programme make clear this perception is flawed.

From Time

If even just a small percentage of Q followers wind up “red pilled,” as the so-called alt-right calls its indoctrination, it could lead to more violence.

From FiveThirtyEight

That might seem like a truly radical change of view—something only distantly imaginable after thorough indoctrination.

From Nautilus

Cultural indoctrination was such an important focus of the regime, and art was seen as one of the best mediums for it.

From The Daily Beast

We cannot stick our head in the sand while our children are held hostage in government indoctrination camps.

From The Daily Beast

The lawsuit contains a shocking list of religious indoctrination.

From The Daily Beast

Mandela sent fighters for training and indoctrination to China when it was still ruled by that revolutionary icon, Mao Tse-Tung.

From The Daily Beast

And what Brown means to write is “according to medieval religious doctrine,” not “indoctrination.”

From The Daily Beast

Then Barrent was turned back to Eylan for political indoctrination.

From Project Gutenberg

But the carefully developed indoctrination propaganda of the top Earth psychologists wasn't the answer he wanted.

From Project Gutenberg

As soon as we could furnish hypno-mech indoctrination in Kharanda to other psychists, I sent them along.

From Project Gutenberg

Did you ask him whether he had had any communist training or indoctrination or anything of that kind?

From Project Gutenberg

Another set of pilots, more indoctrination, new rockets, another zero hour.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• persuasion